Raptor's Nest (He/Him)
@drmambobob.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist | Data Scientist | Samurai
Website: https://manabusakamoto.uk/
Find me on Mastodon: @drmambobob@ecoevo.social
Website: https://manabusakamoto.uk/
Find me on Mastodon: @drmambobob@ecoevo.social
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tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…
plutopsyche.medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
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Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
#SVP2025 something new happened today. People know me through my papers. Either my papers are getting traction or I’ve been in the field long enough. Either way, a good way to start off a conference!
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
#SVP2025 something new happened today. People know me through my papers. Either my papers are getting traction or I’ve been in the field long enough. Either way, a good way to start off a conference!
#SVP2025 had my poster session this afternoon. Met a lot of amazing people excited about voting and cutting biomechanics! If you’re at SVP then please come find me! I’ll be here for the whole duration.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
#SVP2025 had my poster session this afternoon. Met a lot of amazing people excited about voting and cutting biomechanics! If you’re at SVP then please come find me! I’ll be here for the whole duration.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just realised that when AI experts give warnings about AI, they’re talking about actual (hypothetical) artificial intelligence, and not the current batch of chat bots masquerading as “AI”. The latter has real world consequences that are already transpiring and have nothing to do with an apocalypse
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I just realised that when AI experts give warnings about AI, they’re talking about actual (hypothetical) artificial intelligence, and not the current batch of chat bots masquerading as “AI”. The latter has real world consequences that are already transpiring and have nothing to do with an apocalypse
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Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
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Watching Trevor Phillips attempt (and fail) to keep up with Zack Polanski is a delight.
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Watching Trevor Phillips attempt (and fail) to keep up with Zack Polanski is a delight.
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I quit it when I got an email saying
they had generated a podcast using AI based on one of my papers without my permission.
they had generated a podcast using AI based on one of my papers without my permission.
September 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I quit it when I got an email saying
they had generated a podcast using AI based on one of my papers without my permission.
they had generated a podcast using AI based on one of my papers without my permission.
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I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I got off academia dot edu 5 or so years ago, when I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me - I found out when a very senior member of the profession replied to one. It's only gone further and further done this path since, as far as I can tell.
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March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project
After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
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"I want to make a country we can all afford to live in."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"I want to make a country we can all afford to live in."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
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"He's got the chat ain't he?"
"I want to make a country we can all afford to live in."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social tells it straight on The Last Leg.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"He's got the chat ain't he?"
Why isn't anyone talking about how energy pricing in the UK is tied to gas prices - and how it would be way cheaper if it reflected the actual prices, mainly sustainable energy?
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Why isn't anyone talking about how energy pricing in the UK is tied to gas prices - and how it would be way cheaper if it reflected the actual prices, mainly sustainable energy?
Monolithic Stupidity
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Monolithic Stupidity
DT! for today
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November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Monolithic Stupidity
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DESIGN THINKING!
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DESIGN THINKING! | DESIGN THINKING! Comic | Substack
Comics pulled kicking and screaming from a designer's head. Click to read "DESIGN THINKING!", by DESIGN THINKING! Comic, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
DESIGN THINKING!
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“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Resisting the AI push into education - Halifax Examiner
Technology has long been pushed as a way of revolutionizing and personalizing education. But there are no panaceas.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”
Wow - I've finally cleared my drafts folder in Outlook!
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wow - I've finally cleared my drafts folder in Outlook!
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Do you think AI sucks? Congrats, you are correct!
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Proclaim it loudly with analog watercolor art www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Do you think AI sucks? Congrats, you are correct!
Proclaim it loudly with analog watercolor art www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
Proclaim it loudly with analog watercolor art www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...
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"Gender critical activism has deconstructed womanhood all the way back to XX chromosomes, ovaries, and the critical gaze of the outside observer, essentially erasing 250 years of feminist campaigning."
rejserin.medium.com/...
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ
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archive.ph/Lc98c
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ
Whose feminism is it anyway?
Ask someone what feminism is and they will give you a wide variety of answers based on their education, life experiences, and exposure to…
rejserin.medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Gender critical activism has deconstructed womanhood all the way back to XX chromosomes, ovaries, and the critical gaze of the outside observer, essentially erasing 250 years of feminist campaigning."
rejserin.medium.com/...
archive.ph/Lc98c
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ
rejserin.medium.com/...
archive.ph/Lc98c
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ
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Every word of Rachel's letter is correct & the essential problem with the guidance is it goes much further than the court ruling:'businesses could choose to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces when it is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”, not that they must exclude them.'
The EHRC's position "leaves businesses and their staff caught in the crossfire of the increasingly bitter gender wars, while doing absolutely nothing to advance women’s rights or protect vulnerable women from abuse": Rachel Taylor MP. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter
Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Every word of Rachel's letter is correct & the essential problem with the guidance is it goes much further than the court ruling:'businesses could choose to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces when it is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”, not that they must exclude them.'
UK politicians seem to be obsessed with retrospectively stripping people’s rights, whether it be trans people’s rights or settled immigrants’ rights to permanent residency…
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
UK politicians seem to be obsessed with retrospectively stripping people’s rights, whether it be trans people’s rights or settled immigrants’ rights to permanent residency…
Why are there so many TRON remakes and reboots? I’ve never seen the original TRON. It was never on TV nor did anyone ever mention TRON in school, and I grew up in the 80s-90s. I was only aware of it as a kid because there was a movie tie in book in the school library…
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Why are there so many TRON remakes and reboots? I’ve never seen the original TRON. It was never on TV nor did anyone ever mention TRON in school, and I grew up in the 80s-90s. I was only aware of it as a kid because there was a movie tie in book in the school library…