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Serdar Basegmez
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Scientific Skeptic, Procrastinating Writer, Podcast Fanatic, Tolerable Speaker, Conspiracy Whisperer, Minister of Silly Jokes, Shilling at
@yalansavar.bsky.social, @greenwichskeptics.org & @londonskeptics.bsky.social, Ex-Istanbulite New-Londoner
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Serdar Basegmez @serdar.uk · Oct 10
Virüslere inanmadığını iddia eden bir virolog, onun mikrop kuramı inkârcılığı ve aşı karşıtları tarafından halen çarpıtılarak aktarılan kızamık virüsü davasını @skeptic.org.uk için yazdım.
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cambskeptics.bsky.social
Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story, report Ruth Michaelson and Beril Eski. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘There’s no way my daughter would have jumped’: why are so many Turkish women falling to their deaths?
Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the…
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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ncecire.bsky.social
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
serdar.uk
This is the historical student residence building of my university, just today. Police used tear gas to the students protesting the removal of student clubs and now they surrounded the building in this way.

This is what will happen to the US universities soon and UK universities after that.
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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profchrisfrench.bsky.social
Next up at @GreenwichSitP: Dr David Clarke (@shuclarke) on "The National Folklore Survey for England" at 7:30 pm, 9/2/26, at the Plume of Feathers, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ. Free, open to all, no need to book. NB: Talk will be filmed. greenwichskeptics.org
Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub
greenwichskeptics.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
serdar.uk
We know this playbook very well from Taksim Gezi Movement in Istanbul back in 2013. Islamists and the pro-government media tried to frame all the protests as part of a Soros/Globalist/Jewish plot,.

The same playbook at a scale.
knowrogan.bsky.social The Know Rogan Experience Podcast @knowrogan.bsky.social · 9d
The media claimed Joe Rogan spoke out against ICE's tactics. We listen to Rogan, and he did nothing of the sort.

Then ICE shot another citizen. How did Joe respond? Patrons can hear Rogan excuse the shooting of Alex Pretti. It'll be on the free feed on Tuesday.

www.patreon.com/posts/0054-a...
#0054 - Andrew Wilson [VIDEO] | The Know Rogan Experience Podcast
Get more from The Know Rogan Experience Podcast on Patreon
www.patreon.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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greenwichskeptics.org
Join us on Monday, 9 Feb at 19:30 for The National Folklore Survey for England with Dr David Clarke (@davidwclarke.bsky.social) at The Plume of Feathers.

The first survey of its kind since 1964, capturing how folklore and belief shape life in modern England.

sitp.online/sitp/greenwi...
February 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
serdar.uk
I just received an email inviting me to play "puzzle game" at LinkedIn! WTF?

When I checked the settings, I saw that they keep adding new types of notifications. There are hundreds of options, with sub-categories. It's insane!

They try everything to send more notifications.
February 5, 2026 at 10:11 AM
serdar.uk
My name today is Sartai…

Not that bad for a situation where an Asian lady speaking to a Turkish guy on the phone in a noisy restaurant. 🙃
February 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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mserdark.com
Irkçılık, sosyal baskı ve benzeri sebeplerden ötürü (ABD'de) siyahların uymak zorunda kaldığı "yazılı olmayan kuralları" nefis bir arayüzle derlemişler.
Yerel emsalleri adına iİlham verici. unwrittenrulesproject.com
Unwritten Rules Encyclopedia | Rules of Black Life
Learn about the social rules that control Black lives.
unwrittenrulesproject.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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londonskeptics.bsky.social
This is tomorrow! 🍻

Hope to see you there!
londonskeptics.bsky.social London Skeptics in the Pub @londonskeptics.bsky.social · 22d
London Skeptics in the Pub on 4 Feb with investigative journalist Meirion Jones and How THEY stop you finding out the TRUTH. A look at the Freedom of Information Act, what it briefly revealed, and how secrecy closed back in.

@meiriontweets.bsky.social

More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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emollick.bsky.social
You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize.

But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.
February 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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jamesrball.com
Once again, proof positive that it's very easy to sell a $20 bill for $10 dollars.

Or to put it another way, turn a $35 million marketing budget into a $7 million box office weekend. (The second highest marketing spend on a documentary in the last decade was about $3 million).
February 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
serdar.uk
Trump'a yaklaşan kim varsa Epstein'la bağlantısı çıkıyor. Tıpkı zamanında elini attığın AKP'linin Fetoyla fotosu çıkması gibi 😀

En son örnek: Bezos'un Trump'a rüşveti olarak Trump'ın eşi için çekilen milyonlarca dolarlık belgeselin yönetmeni Ratner 🙃

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files
The images of Ratner with Epstein and unidentified women were released the same day as his documentary about the US first lady.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
serdar.uk
I even came across the same conspiracy theory after the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey. It was claimed that “globalists” had somehow triggered the earthquake to build 15-minute cities in the disaster zone.

I wrote about this for @skeptic.org.uk

www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/02/eart...
February 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
serdar.uk
Really enjoyed the brilliant conversation last night about demonic babies, scary monsters, and, of course, “monster-looking ghost possessions” in horror films 😀

I can never get enough of watching @robinince.bsky.social on stage!
cosmicshambles.com The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 21d
Not many tickets left for a LIVE An Uncanny Hour this Sat Jan 31 at Kings Place. Join an all star panel as they rank some of the greatest monsters in horror movie history. Hosted by @robinince.bsky.social with Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe & David McAlmont. Tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...
February 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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forteanlondon.bsky.social
Our events at The Bell in 2026
May - July

May 26 – Deborah Hyde – A 21st-Century Werewolf in Hull?
Jun 30 – Richard Marshall – The Levitating Hamster
Jul 28 – Gary Parsons – The Highgate Vampire

Web: forteanlondon.blogspot.com or newsletter: eepurl.com/hV9OAr
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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mrmmarsh.bsky.social
"More than 38,000 people took part in the consultation... 84% of respondents to the consultation had swum at the bathing ponds... with 86% of respondents supporting the existing trans-inclusive access arrangements."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Transphobes are an over-represented noisy minority.
Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court
The current policy is that trans men and trans women are entitled to use the pond of their choice.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
serdar.uk
So they want to disapply UN Convention Against Torture...

What kind of a sick ideology made you say this out loud?

(Rhetorical question, obviously)
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
serdar.uk
Just submitted a session abstract!
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 AM
serdar.uk
@isilarican.com sizin mahallenin kedisi kaçmış. Nerede diye merak ederseniz...
sfchronicle.com San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 22d
A mountain lion was spotted on video in San Francisco overnight Sunday and may still be at large in the city, S.F. Animal Care and Control said on Monday.
January 27, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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londonskeptics.bsky.social
London Skeptics in the Pub on 4 Feb with investigative journalist Meirion Jones and How THEY stop you finding out the TRUTH. A look at the Freedom of Information Act, what it briefly revealed, and how secrecy closed back in.

@meiriontweets.bsky.social

More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
US government rn
A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons. The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body” Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”
January 25, 2026 at 11:29 AM
serdar.uk
ChatGPT and others just found an excuse to hallucinate:

"Sorry guys, Internet -at least as we see it- is bullshit"
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
serdar.uk
7 kişi adamı yatırmış tekme tokat dövüyor. Bir tanesi gelip dövülen adamın belindeki silahı alıp uzaklaştırıyor. Sonra iki agent toplam 10 el ateş ediyor (5'i adam hareketsiz yatarken).

Ajanların savunması "Önce Papa ateş etti" kıvamında.

Bellingcat'in analizi çok net: Sokak ortasında infaz!
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24d
After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.
January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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isilarican.com
Bunları hep zamanında
@yalansavar.bsky.social ‘da yazdık.

Aşıların etkinliğini, aşıların etkinliği bizzat unutturdu. Ama maalesef doğa bize üzücü şekilde tekrar anımsatacak.
us.theguardian.com Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27d
A year after the Texas outbreak began, new US cases reveal gaps in vaccination and rising risk for children
The return of measles: how a once-vanquished disease is spreading again
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM