Oobydoobyoo
@crowtango.bsky.social
Errant scribe. Lazy idiot. I like to cycle, drink coffee and eat small tasty cakes. Interested in intersectional approaches to decolonisation. Photos - https://jackdaw-honeymoss.tumblr.com/
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
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Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.
September 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.
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People determine their values and factual beliefs in dialogue with their in-group consensus. Social media provides a convincing-looking metric of in-group support that is also easily manipulated (by people, not just bots). It's a recipe for disaster, and we're living with the consequences right now.
I have no evidence for this so take it with a thousand grains of salt, but we know prominent online influencers are frequently radicalized by their own audience and if that audience is largely bot networks, we need to consider which is the cart and which is the horse.
I'm not sure "driven by bots" is the most accurate way to describe these results. The Cracker Barrel boycott was very openly launched and amplified by prominent conservative influencers like Chris Rufo. Bots may have latched onto it afterwards but it was organic far-right derangement.
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
People determine their values and factual beliefs in dialogue with their in-group consensus. Social media provides a convincing-looking metric of in-group support that is also easily manipulated (by people, not just bots). It's a recipe for disaster, and we're living with the consequences right now.
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?
June 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?
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It is a campaign of erasure: the systematic extermination of an occupied people, not for defense, but annihilation. Every man woman & child is marked for death or exile, every home, school, hospital reduced to ash. Now, even shedding a tear for this horror has become a crime in the land of the free.
April 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It is a campaign of erasure: the systematic extermination of an occupied people, not for defense, but annihilation. Every man woman & child is marked for death or exile, every home, school, hospital reduced to ash. Now, even shedding a tear for this horror has become a crime in the land of the free.
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Thread: An Garda Siochana, or members thereof, in my living memory have 1. Carried out more breathalyser tests than they bought the kits for 2. Been seen blowing into the ones they did buy themselves in Garda stations apparently to make up target numbers. 3 planted explosives on a mast in Ardara...
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thread: An Garda Siochana, or members thereof, in my living memory have 1. Carried out more breathalyser tests than they bought the kits for 2. Been seen blowing into the ones they did buy themselves in Garda stations apparently to make up target numbers. 3 planted explosives on a mast in Ardara...
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Complete coincidence I'm sure that the Guardian has a 'strategic partnership' with OpenAI, just as all these AI-positive stories are also a complete coincidence. Nobody tells them what to write.
The Guardian is the enemy, people. Stop consuming it.
The Guardian is the enemy, people. Stop consuming it.
I imagine it's easier to come to this rather generous conclusion if you have already built a glittering and secure literary career www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson
I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Complete coincidence I'm sure that the Guardian has a 'strategic partnership' with OpenAI, just as all these AI-positive stories are also a complete coincidence. Nobody tells them what to write.
The Guardian is the enemy, people. Stop consuming it.
The Guardian is the enemy, people. Stop consuming it.
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"This is how fascism begins. It never says its name; it crawls, it floats, and when it shows the tip of its nose, we say: Is it him? Do you think so? You mustn't exaggerate! And then one day, it gets in your face, and it's too late to get rid of it."
Françoise Giroud
Françoise Giroud
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"This is how fascism begins. It never says its name; it crawls, it floats, and when it shows the tip of its nose, we say: Is it him? Do you think so? You mustn't exaggerate! And then one day, it gets in your face, and it's too late to get rid of it."
Françoise Giroud
Françoise Giroud
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A thread with news from South Korea, where President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law
Doors to the National Assembly reportedly blocked. National Assembly members unable to enter
m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2024...
m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2024...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:19 PM
A thread with news from South Korea, where President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law
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Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
Perpetually growing meat!
This is mildly interesting: scientists have modified muscle cells in culture so that they produce their own growth factors. This is a major cost reduction, because now you won’t need to const…
freethoughtblogs.com
March 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Great news everyone! There's now a form of artificial meat that's extruded in a continuous, undead tube, and it grows by itself because scientists gave it cancer.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
The little homemade coffee roaster at oneskyfiveseas in Chiang Mai
September 10, 2023 at 1:54 PM
The little homemade coffee roaster at oneskyfiveseas in Chiang Mai