A Mackey
@amandainyork.bsky.social
Researcher (social interventions).
Feminist (trans women are women).
Immigrant (US->UK).
Northerner (UK)/Southerner (US).
Dog owner (labradoodle).
She/her.
Feminist (trans women are women).
Immigrant (US->UK).
Northerner (UK)/Southerner (US).
Dog owner (labradoodle).
She/her.
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rise and shine buttercup, a new day of treachery awaits
January 16, 2026 at 11:12 AM
rise and shine buttercup, a new day of treachery awaits
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What if government is stuck in a local maximum?
Today I'm publishing a new post exploring whether the evidence standards and control mechanisms we use in government are limiting us to a dangerously narrow field of view. If so, what could we do about that?
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Today I'm publishing a new post exploring whether the evidence standards and control mechanisms we use in government are limiting us to a dangerously narrow field of view. If so, what could we do about that?
medium.com/@jamestplunk... 1/n
What if government is stuck in a local maximum?
The case for broadening our field of view
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December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What if government is stuck in a local maximum?
Today I'm publishing a new post exploring whether the evidence standards and control mechanisms we use in government are limiting us to a dangerously narrow field of view. If so, what could we do about that?
medium.com/@jamestplunk... 1/n
Today I'm publishing a new post exploring whether the evidence standards and control mechanisms we use in government are limiting us to a dangerously narrow field of view. If so, what could we do about that?
medium.com/@jamestplunk... 1/n
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
August 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social Hi I'm an overseas voter registered in NC, heard on your podcast today that my vote might have been thrown out? This hasn't been a big story here in UK, and I can't find what the affected counties are or what I should do. Any more info you could point me to?
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social Hi I'm an overseas voter registered in NC, heard on your podcast today that my vote might have been thrown out? This hasn't been a big story here in UK, and I can't find what the affected counties are or what I should do. Any more info you could point me to?
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Today's breathrough in feminism, putting the ass in astronaut by wearing my sexy astronaut suit to get in a billionaire's penis rocket
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today's breathrough in feminism, putting the ass in astronaut by wearing my sexy astronaut suit to get in a billionaire's penis rocket
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One perfect baked potato could revolutionise your life and if you don't believe me I just hope you find your potato soon
April 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
One perfect baked potato could revolutionise your life and if you don't believe me I just hope you find your potato soon
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Bipartisanship is the result of good-faith responsible governance, it is not the cause.
Trying to create good results by seeking bipartisanship with Nazis is like sleeping in a yellowjacket nest for the honey.
Trying to create good results by seeking bipartisanship with Nazis is like sleeping in a yellowjacket nest for the honey.
April 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Bipartisanship is the result of good-faith responsible governance, it is not the cause.
Trying to create good results by seeking bipartisanship with Nazis is like sleeping in a yellowjacket nest for the honey.
Trying to create good results by seeking bipartisanship with Nazis is like sleeping in a yellowjacket nest for the honey.
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/5 Believe in hope even if you don’t feel it right now. Ask for support. Lean on loved ones and friends. It will get better even if you can’t see it now.
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
/5 Believe in hope even if you don’t feel it right now. Ask for support. Lean on loved ones and friends. It will get better even if you can’t see it now.
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/4 So: if you’re not in a great place this week, if your depression and anxiety are on an upswing, then I’d just ask you to engage in a moment of faith. I’d ask you to imagine, to hypothesize, that things will get better, that this will pass, that there is hope, because I know it’s hard to see.
April 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
/4 So: if you’re not in a great place this week, if your depression and anxiety are on an upswing, then I’d just ask you to engage in a moment of faith. I’d ask you to imagine, to hypothesize, that things will get better, that this will pass, that there is hope, because I know it’s hard to see.
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/3 That’s because depression and anxiety lie to you, rob you of context, shut you away from hope. They make you forget and disbelieve the thing you know — that things can get better, that they WILL get better. That people care. That you can get help.
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
/3 That’s because depression and anxiety lie to you, rob you of context, shut you away from hope. They make you forget and disbelieve the thing you know — that things can get better, that they WILL get better. That people care. That you can get help.
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⚠️ ALERT: If you are a frequent user of the forest, please go to Father Tree and review your preferences. Some wanderers are finding that the spirits in this wood have enabled the AI to be trained on your frolics and romps
March 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
⚠️ ALERT: If you are a frequent user of the forest, please go to Father Tree and review your preferences. Some wanderers are finding that the spirits in this wood have enabled the AI to be trained on your frolics and romps
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All
Republicans
(Yes, all)
Are
Nazis
Republicans
(Yes, all)
Are
Nazis
January 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
All
Republicans
(Yes, all)
Are
Nazis
Republicans
(Yes, all)
Are
Nazis
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Never going to forget or forgive a single fucking person who supported him.
🚨 Trump will instruct the federal government tomorrow via an executive order to not recognize that transgender people exist and exclusively recognize people as their sex assigned at birth.
www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.
www.thefp.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Never going to forget or forgive a single fucking person who supported him.
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The press is going to try to memory hole their own culpability and credulity, but when Trump issues a shitload of executive orders lifted verbatim from Project 2025, we shouldn’t let them forget that they let him off the hook by giving the least convincing denial in history.
January 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The press is going to try to memory hole their own culpability and credulity, but when Trump issues a shitload of executive orders lifted verbatim from Project 2025, we shouldn’t let them forget that they let him off the hook by giving the least convincing denial in history.
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Biden's promise was that once Trump was out of office, his good friends the Republicans would revert to their bipartisan pre-Newt Gingrich ways; this was obviously wrong, Republicans proved him wrong immediately and repeatedly, Democrats didn't ever adjust to meet that reality, here we are.
January 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Biden's promise was that once Trump was out of office, his good friends the Republicans would revert to their bipartisan pre-Newt Gingrich ways; this was obviously wrong, Republicans proved him wrong immediately and repeatedly, Democrats didn't ever adjust to meet that reality, here we are.
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Would've been a great 1st address, particularly if it included a call for the justice department to prosecute every Republican who voted to overturn for sedition, and a stated intention to remove them all from office as the Constitution mandates.
Could have been a diagnosis; now it's an autopsy.
Could have been a diagnosis; now it's an autopsy.
Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"
January 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Would've been a great 1st address, particularly if it included a call for the justice department to prosecute every Republican who voted to overturn for sedition, and a stated intention to remove them all from office as the Constitution mandates.
Could have been a diagnosis; now it's an autopsy.
Could have been a diagnosis; now it's an autopsy.
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A hypothetical: Imagine I gathered: 1 1/2 cups flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 cup whole milk.
"He's making a cake," you may think.
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"He's making a cake," you may think.
www.the-reframe.com/they-know-ex...
They Know Exactly What They're Doing
Those who follow recipes want to make the dish. Those who stay neutral about this fact want it made for them.
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December 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
A hypothetical: Imagine I gathered: 1 1/2 cups flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 cup whole milk.
"He's making a cake," you may think.
www.the-reframe.com/they-know-ex...
"He's making a cake," you may think.
www.the-reframe.com/they-know-ex...
What a great thread! Feeling a bit nostalgic for my long-gone cathedral nerd days. Still a bit of a spark there for me which is nice to be reminded of every once in a while.
Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
December 7, 2024 at 9:43 AM
What a great thread! Feeling a bit nostalgic for my long-gone cathedral nerd days. Still a bit of a spark there for me which is nice to be reminded of every once in a while.
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I hate gaining wisdom through painful life experience, I miss being a big stupid dummy
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 AM
I hate gaining wisdom through painful life experience, I miss being a big stupid dummy