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Erich DeWald
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American in Manchester, recovering academic historian, another gay gym addict — IG @erichabroad
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jdportes.bsky.social
This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation.

Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!
alanbeattie.bsky.social Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · Oct 5
OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n
October 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
erichdewald.bsky.social
bit chilly this morning in Manchester
September 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
erichdewald.bsky.social
not "rude posts". they were trans-hating and violence-inciting posts. from a known transphobe.
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 3
The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.
The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem
The absurd detention of the comedy writer Graham Linehan underscores a deeper issue.
bit.ly
September 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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lewisgoodall.com
Fox’s wrap up line to the Trump interview: “We have to let you go Mr President, you probably have lots of other wars to solve.”
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
erichdewald.bsky.social
saying "holibobs" should be a capital offence
August 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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moreandagain.me
Obligated to share every time I see this petty genius 😂
July 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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wardqnormal.bsky.social
You already had coffee. How do you not remember getting coffee?
A photo of a corner coffee shop named Gaslight Coffee.
July 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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hawkeyebilly.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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couldn't get more Manchester www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Gender reveal party turns into '200-person rave' at holiday rental in cul-de-sac
Guests reportedly arrived at the house in Rochdale in buses
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
mjmimages.bsky.social Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · Jul 2
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 109 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero
July 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
erichdewald.bsky.social
no way retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
retractionwatch.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Free Beavers Now
June 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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dly.bsky.social
probably a good time to bring this back
meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
thinking about this again, no reason
CNN screenshot from 2020 with a chyron "Can either coronavirus or Bernie Sanders be stopped?"
June 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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esqueer.net
I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst.

www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti
Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
erichdewald.bsky.social
This is who runs this account.
June 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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snarkysillysad.bsky.social
Ducks eating watermelon: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/...
June 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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cwebbonline.com
On Juneteenth and forever…

Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.

(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
June 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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melmayhem.bsky.social
I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙

Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬
June 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
erichdewald.bsky.social
every image i see of Trump's pride parade makes it seem even more lame
June 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 14
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM