Alastair McGowan
@alastairmcgowan.bsky.social
At the edge of coherence. Complex systems and the adaptive mind. Cognitive science PhD. Lifelong interest in authoritarian psychology. Extremely moderate.
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Fun fact: Every other leader of the democratic free world would've arrested Putin on the spot. Instead, America's cowardly pedophile president fawned over, flattered, and celebrated the most murderous dictator of the 21st century — desecrating everything America stands for.
August 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fun fact: Every other leader of the democratic free world would've arrested Putin on the spot. Instead, America's cowardly pedophile president fawned over, flattered, and celebrated the most murderous dictator of the 21st century — desecrating everything America stands for.
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Liz Kendall's review of the state pension age exposes the absurd elitist calculus that forces workers to grind until exhaustion. Subvert this relic of inequity through genuine reform. #PensionReform #UK
July 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Liz Kendall's review of the state pension age exposes the absurd elitist calculus that forces workers to grind until exhaustion. Subvert this relic of inequity through genuine reform. #PensionReform #UK
Watering down by conflating the meaning of terrorism will have serious future consequences. Not least diverting police and security services' skills and focus when critically needed to protect people from terror attacks. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.
www.declassifieduk.org
July 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Watering down by conflating the meaning of terrorism will have serious future consequences. Not least diverting police and security services' skills and focus when critically needed to protect people from terror attacks. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Much about football at the moment. How about if it became far more dynamic and far less strategic? There are those who say 'I can't see the point in that' That's precisely the point, there is no point. This from #FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezbn...
How 3-sided football works
YouTube video by FIFA
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July 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Much about football at the moment. How about if it became far more dynamic and far less strategic? There are those who say 'I can't see the point in that' That's precisely the point, there is no point. This from #FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezbn...
Media is an ideological battle ground that obfuscates understanding and disempowers so many people before they ever reach voting age. Politics students get an insight that all young people should be increasingly exposed to from the age of ten onwards. amergent.blogspot.com/2025/07/demo...
Democratic Awareness is Situational Awareness
Media is an ideological battle ground that obfuscates understanding and disempowers so many people before they ever reach voting age. Politi...
amergent.blogspot.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Media is an ideological battle ground that obfuscates understanding and disempowers so many people before they ever reach voting age. Politics students get an insight that all young people should be increasingly exposed to from the age of ten onwards. amergent.blogspot.com/2025/07/demo...
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🤣 🤣 I have some studying up to do!! Scottish names for Trump 🤣 @zee207702.bsky.social Is McShits on here? 😆 “Shit-Spackled Muppet Fart 💨 “
July 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🤣 🤣 I have some studying up to do!! Scottish names for Trump 🤣 @zee207702.bsky.social Is McShits on here? 😆 “Shit-Spackled Muppet Fart 💨 “
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27 July 1932 | A Yugoslavian Jewish girl, Vera Frisch, was born in Osijek.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
July 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
27 July 1932 | A Yugoslavian Jewish girl, Vera Frisch, was born in Osijek.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
We are near the point at which AI can skip the costly backpropagation process and directly access pattern at a deep-learning level, with the use of new models of the brain that do likewise. arxiv.org/html/2507.05...
Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain
arxiv.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We are near the point at which AI can skip the costly backpropagation process and directly access pattern at a deep-learning level, with the use of new models of the brain that do likewise. arxiv.org/html/2507.05...
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Hallucinogen Psilocybin extends lifespan of cell and rewinds aging in mice [via Emory med.] 🧪🔬🪄🍄🐁🕰️
"first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#magic #mushroom #psilocybin #rewind #aging
"first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#magic #mushroom #psilocybin #rewind #aging
Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice - npj Aging
npj Aging - Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hallucinogen Psilocybin extends lifespan of cell and rewinds aging in mice [via Emory med.] 🧪🔬🪄🍄🐁🕰️
"first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#magic #mushroom #psilocybin #rewind #aging
"first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#magic #mushroom #psilocybin #rewind #aging
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In my view, the state pension age should actually be lowered with the long-term view of introducing a Universal Basic Income applicable to everyone. Funding that would be a major challenge, but step 1 is to agree what the outcome we're looking for is, and that's surely not a rising pension age.
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In my view, the state pension age should actually be lowered with the long-term view of introducing a Universal Basic Income applicable to everyone. Funding that would be a major challenge, but step 1 is to agree what the outcome we're looking for is, and that's surely not a rising pension age.
@lvtyimby.bsky.social The major failure of Enclosure was for the nation to hand freehold land title to the individual totally free of obligation. Exclusive right to land is a privilege and ought to carry a responsibility to the nation 10, 20, 30, 50?% of annual market rental value. How much is fair?
July 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@lvtyimby.bsky.social The major failure of Enclosure was for the nation to hand freehold land title to the individual totally free of obligation. Exclusive right to land is a privilege and ought to carry a responsibility to the nation 10, 20, 30, 50?% of annual market rental value. How much is fair?
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social I wonder how often people from various ethnic minorities, visible and not visible, are stopped by police or arrested without charge. I suspect data would give strong support to your statements about experiences of racism without you having to keep running the gauntlet
July 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
@hackneyabbott.bsky.social I wonder how often people from various ethnic minorities, visible and not visible, are stopped by police or arrested without charge. I suspect data would give strong support to your statements about experiences of racism without you having to keep running the gauntlet
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Very odd that no members of #PalestinianAction have been engaged in terrorism but people attempting to point this out and support PA in overturning their proscription are being investigated for terrorist offenses. Orwellian.
July 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Very odd that no members of #PalestinianAction have been engaged in terrorism but people attempting to point this out and support PA in overturning their proscription are being investigated for terrorist offenses. Orwellian.
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5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.
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one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
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Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
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Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
WASHINGTON—Stressing that it would be simplest to troubleshoot now during the onboarding process for his company’s surveillance technology, Palantir founder Peter Thiel reportedly spent Tuesday morning showing President Donald Trump how to sort a spreadsheet of Americans by ethnicity. “So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from […]
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July 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
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“I’ve had landowners threaten to drill holes in my kayak,” says @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Bolton West. “All because of disputes over who can access our rivers.”
He’s calling for “a default right to roam similar to that which has been used in Scotland”
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
He’s calling for “a default right to roam similar to that which has been used in Scotland”
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
Vast swathes of the English countryside are off-limits | The Observer
The public can access just 8 per cent of land and 3 per cent of rivers
observer.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“I’ve had landowners threaten to drill holes in my kayak,” says @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Bolton West. “All because of disputes over who can access our rivers.”
He’s calling for “a default right to roam similar to that which has been used in Scotland”
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
He’s calling for “a default right to roam similar to that which has been used in Scotland”
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
As if he would ever be able produce research that would meet their standards
May 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
As if he would ever be able produce research that would meet their standards
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Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
May 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
@supertanskiiii.bsky.social Excelled yourself even by your usual hilarious cutting standards with the Tommy Shithouse Gump post. Brilliant
May 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@supertanskiiii.bsky.social Excelled yourself even by your usual hilarious cutting standards with the Tommy Shithouse Gump post. Brilliant