Camden
@camdenluxford.bsky.social
She/her, Australian, AuDHDer. Too much politics, not enough video games.
Profile pic is an installation by Greer Lankton.
Profile pic is an installation by Greer Lankton.
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Worth pointing out that researchers say there's no concrete evidence of an actual organization or cartel by that name.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Worth pointing out that researchers say there's no concrete evidence of an actual organization or cartel by that name.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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I'd go further and say there's a nightmare mirror version of any political issue you'd care to mention. RFK Jr is like this with our food system and environmental illnesses. Terfism is like this with feminist politics. This is why people should read Doppleganger.
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'd go further and say there's a nightmare mirror version of any political issue you'd care to mention. RFK Jr is like this with our food system and environmental illnesses. Terfism is like this with feminist politics. This is why people should read Doppleganger.
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"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I could be a mentor to this very sharp person but as they aren't interested in me romantically I'm going to have to cut off all communication with them."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
"Also, only men get the best mentors like me who can help them get into top journals. Clearly that's because men have higher IQ than women."
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
The international asylum regime—along with a lot of international human rights law—was built out of the ashes of the Holocaust because the West was so horrified by what we’d allowed to happen and who we’d turned away at the border.
Fundamentally, on asylum and immigration as with other issues like trans rights, liberals (both liberals (pejorative) and liberals (approbatory)) have spent the last forty years plus trying to find a livable compromise with fascists, who are making it clear no such thing exists.
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The international asylum regime—along with a lot of international human rights law—was built out of the ashes of the Holocaust because the West was so horrified by what we’d allowed to happen and who we’d turned away at the border.
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BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
They also share, I think, a belief in biology as destiny (i.e. paedophilia and sexual abuse more broadly as a consequence of men’s ‘natural evolutionary drives’).
Convince yourself that biology is destiny and voila: a motive for eugenics and a permission structure for sexual exploitation.
Convince yourself that biology is destiny and voila: a motive for eugenics and a permission structure for sexual exploitation.
I think you could be forgiven for naively thinking that eugenics beliefs and being a paedophile are unrelated so be surprised that one chap had both vices. But I do think there is some inner link due to a shared preference for natural hierarchy. "It should be enforced, and when enforced exploited."
'i'm into heterodox ideas in science'
'what heterodox ideas?'
'oh, you know the ones'
'what heterodox ideas?'
'oh, you know the ones'
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
They also share, I think, a belief in biology as destiny (i.e. paedophilia and sexual abuse more broadly as a consequence of men’s ‘natural evolutionary drives’).
Convince yourself that biology is destiny and voila: a motive for eugenics and a permission structure for sexual exploitation.
Convince yourself that biology is destiny and voila: a motive for eugenics and a permission structure for sexual exploitation.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Anyway while we are talking about celebrity repulsions—one thing I find totally unrelatable is celebrity crushes.
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Anyway while we are talking about celebrity repulsions—one thing I find totally unrelatable is celebrity crushes.
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I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.
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Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit
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this explains a rumor I’ve been holding on to for a few weeks because I couldn’t get enough sourcing to confirm regarding a special someone guest-directing an episode of severance season three
Adam Scott meeting the pope, for anyone interested in that sort of thing
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
this explains a rumor I’ve been holding on to for a few weeks because I couldn’t get enough sourcing to confirm regarding a special someone guest-directing an episode of severance season three
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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just say it, reporters, it's not hard: '...the trump administration's open threats to use military force against a state that has not attacked it are widely seen by experts as illegal under international law...' there is very little to debate about that.
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force. n.pr/47XHvV3
U.S. official says the 'table is being set' for possible military action against Venezuela
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
just say it, reporters, it's not hard: '...the trump administration's open threats to use military force against a state that has not attacked it are widely seen by experts as illegal under international law...' there is very little to debate about that.
“I’ll just have a quick look at Bluesky before bed”
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: Michael Blyth, a white man with short brown hair, picks up a brown paper bag labelled “dead dove, do not eat.” He opens the bag and is, predictably, disgusted.
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“I’ll just have a quick look at Bluesky before bed”
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Honestly might be one of the bleakest sentences I’ve read in a while
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Honestly might be one of the bleakest sentences I’ve read in a while
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
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v good thread to show to your cis people who don’t understand the kafkaesque web of insane bureaucratic nonsense that british trans people have been trapped in for decades
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
v good thread to show to your cis people who don’t understand the kafkaesque web of insane bureaucratic nonsense that british trans people have been trapped in for decades
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The study, entitled “Why are they like that?”, seeks to investigate the causes of autism as conjectured by the highly opinionated loved ones and colleagues of autistic people, whose hot takes are infinitely more valuable than anything autistic people have to say.
First autism study to take place without any autistic people called a “bloody relief” by researchers
A groundbreaking new autism study has reportedly taken place without any autistic people involved at all - to the relief of its researchers. The study, entitled "Why are they like that?", seeks to…
thedailytism.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The study, entitled “Why are they like that?”, seeks to investigate the causes of autism as conjectured by the highly opinionated loved ones and colleagues of autistic people, whose hot takes are infinitely more valuable than anything autistic people have to say.